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【Police in Japan have started removing suspects’ nationalities from their arrest reports】 I want more people to know what’s happening, so I’m sharing what I’ve found, along with the evidence. I’m posting this in English because I want people outside Japan to know about it too. Japan has 47 prefectures, each with its own police department. They all release information about arrests, but what they choose to disclose varies from place to place. I check the arrest reports from all 47 prefectures every single day. I honestly doubt many other people in Japan are doing this. On August 7, 2025, I noticed something strange. The police in Ibaraki Prefecture had stopped identifying suspects by their specific nationality. Instead, they were simply calling them “foreign nationals.” That meant you could no longer tell which country a suspect was from. Then, in June 2026, I found that they had stopped using the term “foreign national” altogether. At that point, you couldn’t even tell whether a suspect was Japanese or foreign from the published reports. And just a few weeks ago, I noticed the same thing happening in Mie Prefecture. I wrote an article about it, pointing out that nationality information had disappeared from their arrest reports. A few days after I published it, the nationality information suddenly reappeared. I’ve saved archived copies of the records, so anyone can check the changes for themselves. You can find the full details in my articles on X (written in Japanese). As far as I know, I’m also the only account systematically tracking crimes involving foreign nationals across Japan. If you think this work is important, I’d appreciate a follow. @OhayoMybrother